Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America Weekend Edition 201

Transcripts For KGO Good Morning America Weekend Edition 20170122

The twister that tore a deadly path. Killing at least four people. Roofs ripped to shreds. This is whats left of our our house. The Severe Weather outbreak right now with 40 million americans in the danger zone. And dramatic rescue. Two women swept into the swirling sea. Thick foam hampering efforts to save them. One man who jumped into the dangerous water with the life guards to help. Speaking out right here this morning. And good sunday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We have a full house here at gma. Speaking of houses, President Donald Trump wakes up in his house, the white house, for his second full day in office. Hell be confronting images, however, like this. Hundreds of thousands of women, and men, hitting the streets. They were marching in washington and cities across the country and the world. More than 600 marches on seven continents. An image of a protest in iraq. And at the main march in washington, this image of three generations from the same family. Going to the march together. The new president , meantime, made a visit to the cia head quarters. Where he aimed to mend fences with the Intelligence Community. He spent much of his time at the podium, however, blasting the media for the coverage of the size of the crowds of the inauguration on friday. And then his press secretary doubled down in an extraordinary first appearance in the Briefing Room. Lashing out at the media, setting a fiery tone for this new administration. We have Team Coverage this morning. We want to start with matt gutman. Who was right out there, covering the marchers in washington. Good morning, matt. Reporter good morning, paula. You might call it the antiinauguration. Well over 1 Million People spilled into cities nationwide to roar their protests of the election of President Trump on his first full day on the job. While the protest here was permitted for about 200,000 people, so many more spilled into this city that it seemed like it was besieged by an army of people in pink beanies. By the hundreds of thousands, they streamed into the National Mall. [ crowd chanting ] hey, hey, ho, ho, donald trump has got to go. Reporter a sea of protesters, bobbing in their pink beanies. Waving placards, condemning President Donald Trump in his first day in office. Welcome to your first day. We will not go away. Reporter and speaking out in support of womens rights. [ crowd chanting ] my body, my choice. Reporter minute by minute, the crowd grew. Boisterously spilling out into the citys side streets. The transit systems jam packed. The scale was global. On every continent, they turned out. From kenya, to australia, to antarctica. In the president s hometown of new york, 400,000 demonstrated. Free melania reporter so many that police had to open up additional streets. Big turnouts in los angeles, seattle, chicago, miami. Atlanta. All those protests anchored by the womans march on washington. This girl is on fire reporter headlined by the kind of alist celebrities that snubbed the president s inaugural. Madonna, a surprise speaker. Didnt hold back. It took this horrific moment of darkness to wake us the [ bleep ] up. Reporter ashley judd, likely the most riled up. We are here to be respected. Hell, yeah reporter the rally got Hillary Clintons attention. She tweeted, thanks for standing, speaking, and marching for our values. Reporter and the creativity. The big bands. The giant globe. And so many pink crocheted hats. People are converging here from every which direction. Everybody moving toward the white house. Along the way, old and young. 7yearold ellie from maryland was riding on her uncle steves shoulders. Have you ever seen this many people in your life . No. Reporter her uncle, getting mistyeyed. Its about the country that were giving to her. Reporter it was chaotic. But it also seemed cathartic. While President Trump was not around for much of time that those thousands of people surrounded the white house. It seemed they sent message that was impossible not to hear. The question is, is this the start of National Movement or just a oneoff grand event . Paula . Dan . Thats the big question that everyone is exploring. The image from antarctica, cant get that one out of your mind. Global involvement, matt. Thank you very much. Several continents. While the marches across the country were blanketed with celebrities and activists. They were also filled with everyday americans. Inspired to take action and abcs Gloria Riviera is in washington this morning with some of the reasons these americans marched. Hi, gloria. Reporter good morning, paula. Inspired is right. I have to tell you what struck me was seeing so many generations marching together. Some with canes. Some in strollers. These are the signs that they carried. So many women telling me, when they were young, they knew the world was changing. They didnt have anyone in their lives encouraging them to march. Those women wanted to make sure their daughters and granddaughters do. This is what democracy looks like. Reporter in los angeles, the womens march brought nostalgia. I havent done this since the 70s. [ chanting ] we are united reporter in raleigh, north carolina, it was a reminder. Its important to fight for what is right. What you believe in. Reporter in washington, d. C. It was a seminal moment for this family. Im so proud of her. She made her own sign. Girls are people, too. Reporter this march marking 7yearold maxs introduction to activism. Its very exciting in some ways. In other ways, you kind of wish you didnt have to be here. Reporter max following in the footsteps of her mom and both grandmothers. Its three generations. And fortunately, i have been given the tools to teach her how to keep moving. Reporter setting out from new york for the National Mall at 1 00 a. M. , joining so many others to take part in the demonstrations. The lesson passed down from one generation to the next. Stand up and be heard. She has a little political bent herself already. Reporter i wonder where she gets that from . So many families echoing that same sentiment that there was a feeling of a National Collective passing of the torch. Bringing the young ones into the fold. That was so important for them. On that day. And let me tell you, the matriarch generation, not going anywhere. Still feisty and still fighting. Dan, paula . Gloria, thank you. As we said, President Trump used his first full day in office to visit the cia headquarters. He stood in front of a wall of stars honoring agents killed in the line of duty. The new president used the opportunity not only to praise the Intelligence Community but also to slam the media for the coverage of the inauguration. A message then hammered home by his press secretary in a fiery appearance. Mary bruce is at the white house covering the rather volcanic beginnings of this new administration. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, well, donald trump promised to shake things up in washington. And that he did. In his first full day in his new office, hes back to familiar fights. Taking issue with Media Coverage of his crowds and now falsely accusing the press of creating his feud with u. S. Intelligence agencies. In his first remarks since inauguration day, the new president picked a new fight with the press. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Reporter speaking at cia headquarters in virginia, trump took issue with reports that the National Mall wasnt as packed during his inauguration as it was for past ceremonies. We had 250,000 people literally around in the little ball that we constructed. The rest of the, you know, 20block area all the way back to the Washington Monument was packed. So we caught them. And we caught them in a beauty. I think theyre going to pay a big price. Reporter the white house is pointing to this photo. Taken from behind the podium. But this view shot from the Washington Monument as trump delivered his remarks paints a different picture. There is no official crowd estimate. Good evening. Reporter a short while later, a fuming press Secretary Sean Spicer took to the podium for the first time. His top order of business giving reporters a tongue lashing. These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong. Reporter no fresh start for their relationship with the press. Trump is trying to mend fences with the Intelligence Community. There is nobody that feels stronger about the Intelligence Community and the cia than donald trump. Reporter trump debuting a new tone after attacking the Intelligence Community for weeks. Including accusing them of leaking unsubstantiated reports that the russians were trying to blackmail him. Thats something nazi germany would have done and did do. I think its a disgrace. The information that was false, fake, never happened, got released to the public. Reporter the former cia director, john brennan, who has sparred with trump in the past, blasted his remarks. His spokesman tweeting that brennan is deeply saddened and angered at trumps display of selfaggrandizement. In front of the cias Memorial Wall of agency heroes. And that trump should be ashamed of himself. The president responding to the demonstrations that we saw across the country tweeting that he watched the protests yesterday but was under the impression we had an election. He says why didnt these people vote . Adding that the celebrities hurt the cause badly. Dan and paula. Pretty unprecedented. We have privilege of welcoming jon karl to our den. Great to have you this morning. Great to be here. You have spent a lot of years in the White House Briefing room. To not only call out the press the new press secretary, sean spicer, but to refuse to take on any questions afterwards is unprecedented. Have you ever seen anything like this before . I have been in the Briefing Room with ten different White House Press secretaries over time. I have never seen anything remotely like that. The idea of the White House Press secretary, also on his very first day behind that podium, to go in there, to issue the kind of tongue lashing he did. The lecturing, i have heard that before, personally, actually. But i have never heard of one going in there and then refusing to answer a single question. Really amazing. Hes not the president of the united states. Hes the press secretary. His job is to answer questions. Given the vast issues facing the administration and the world, why are they taking this issue, the coverage of the crowd size, to focus on . Its a great question. And its mystifying, except that i can tell you, its not new. Donald trump has always had something of an obsession with the size of his crowds. And lets face it. This is a guy thats attracted huge crowds since the first day he was a president ial candidate. It is completely unnecessary. By the way, there are huge issues. That was an historic day on friday. An historic speech. There are big questions. What happens to obamacare . Will he follow through on his promise of lowering Health Care Costs . Or are millions of americans going to be deprived of their Health Insurance . What happens on the International Stage now that hes saying a big break with past president china, russia. Instead, were talking about crowd size. I would say, dan, its a challenge for us in the news media not to obsess over it either. This is not an important issue. He had a big crowd, whether or not it was bigger, who cares . He had a big crowd. Lets talk about the issues. One of those issues. Election night, trump said, quote, i want to be the president to all americans. So, does he plan on being the president of those millions of americans we saw marching across the country . I think he does. I think if you looked at the last third of his speech, on friday, there was an effort to reach out to others. And i think that he knows that thats a challenge. The people at the white house know thats a challenge. This is not exactly the way to do it. Jon karl, great to have you. You want to stick around . Why not. Im here. Come back for pop news. A reminder, George Stephanopoulos has a big show on this week. Hell speak with kellyanne conway. About the first days of the trump administration. And Senate Minority leader chuck schumer. Senator john mccain will weigh in. On the week ahead. Jon karl will weigh in. All coming up later this morning on this week, right here on abc. Well be watching. We do move on to the breaking weather news. Were told multiple deaths are reported in georgia after tornados touched down there and rob has been tracking it. A sad situation. After another night of deadly tornados across southern georgia and three counties. 11 people losing their lives and over 20 injuries as they came in the dead of night. On the heels of what happened in mississippi just the night before, four fatalities there as tornados ripped through that area in the middle of the night and ef3 tornado, over 136 miles an hour. Widespread damage across that town. Tornado watches for south georgia and the Florida Panhandle and northern parts of florida as it makes its way down to the south. Theres enough energy left to have a high risk for tornados and damaging destructive long track tornados this afternoon. That map looks scary. And joining us on the phone is tiffany who is in southern georgia. Were going to be looking at the photos. But you said when this tornado came, it sounded like a freight train. Were you given much warning . No. [ inaudible ] seemed like it happened at the same time. What kind of destruction are you seeing . Where youre at right now. There are mobile homes completely gone and mobile homes on top of other mobile homes all down the road. Trees uprooted from the ground. There are people that are still missing when i left the home park. It was completely demolished. The back end of it. You talk about sunny acres mobile home park. A place where elderly folks live . Correct. Can you tell us about the scene there where the elderly people live . Yes. It was total chaos. A lot of people were across the street from there. The store had been closed a little while and there were people missing, mothers looking for their children. There were people looking for their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters. It was horrible. Sounds incredibly sad. Were glad that youre safe. We appreciate it. Thats tiffany joining us from georgia. Rob, whats next for this storm. Well, if theres any sort of good news is the main threat Going Forward should be in Daylight Hours for the most part. Part of the reasons they were so destructive and deadly is because last night and the night before these came in the dead of the night when people were asleep and that is a recipe for disaster. No doubt about that. Were watching this line progress. By 7 00 tonight were talking about orlando and charleston south california and for the northeast this storm will traverse on to the coast and become a noreaster and tomorrow morning heavy rain, wind, big time waves for the midatlantic and new jersey, long island and eastern parts of new england and snow into the interior. Most of i95 rain and a lot of high Wind Warnings posted for winds gusting 50, 60, maybe 70 miles an hour that will do damage and bring down trees and knock out some power. Here are your local forecasts. Good sunday morning. Im lisa argen. Theres a Flash Flood Watch throughout the afternoon as were still looking at some ponding and localized flooding from sonoma to napa down through santa cruz. So do be careful out there. Were looking at scattered showers, some heavy downpours, and even a thunderstorm today behind the front. So, the winds have eased up, but its still going to be a rainy afternoon out there and more lingering showers into monday. But beyond that, we have a dry week ahead with more sunshine. All this talk of the east, huge storm hitting california today, last of three hitting the west coast, more on that in ten minutes. And good morning ron. I know youre going to pick up where rob left off. Thats right. Good morning to you and good morning everyone. We begin with the nasty weather in california. In san diego where a powerful wave knocked two women from a cliff into the water. Rescuers searching for them in surf as high as ten feet. One bystander was able to pull one of the two women to safety. I dont know. I got her and i threw her over my shoulder and tried to carry her in and we got washed out again a little bit. It took life guards 40 minutes to find the other woman who is in critical condition. An air scare in florida as a bomb threat causes a jetblue flight to make an Emergency Landing in Fort Lauderdale saturday afternoon. Airline Officials Say someone discovered a suspicious note with a bomb threat in one of the planes bathrooms. The flight was diverted. As a precaution. Everyone got off the aircraft and went through security again. While the aircraft was checked. No explosives were found. The flight flying on to its destination. The update on the health of george h. W. Bush and the former first lady may be released from the hospital. Where the couple has been recovering from illness. She could go home as soon as today. The 92yearold former president meanwhile is said to be improving and breathing on his own after battling pneumonia and expected to re

© 2025 Vimarsana